Jonathan Cook

The BBC’s news verification service, Verify, digitally reconstructed a residential tower block in Mandalay earlier this week to show how it had collapsed in a huge earthquake on March 28 in Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia largely cut off from the outside world. The broadcaster painstakingly pieced together damage to other parts of the … Continue reading “The Graver Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza, the Quieter the BBC Grows”

Israel has found a captive recently released from Gaza willing to regurgitate some of its most nonsensical talking points on the stage of the United Nations. Predictably, those talking points are already being exploited to justify Israel intensifying its slaughter of Palestinian children in Gaza – and further bully the United Nations into even greater … Continue reading “‘Where Was the UN?’ Asks Freed Israeli Captive. Its Staff Were Busy Being Killed”

Israel sustained the West’s support for its slaughter in Gaza for 15 months only through an intensive campaign of lies. It invented particularly heinous Hamas war crimes, such baby beheadings and mass rape, for which no evidence has ever been produced. Conversely, it played down its own, even graver war crimes in response to Hamas’ … Continue reading “Netanyahu Views the Hostages as His Excuse To Restart the Slaughter”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intention from day one of his “revenge” attack on Gaza, launched 16 months ago, was either ethnic cleansing or genocide in Gaza. His ally in genocide for the next 15 months was former US President Joe Biden. His ally in ethnic cleansing is current US President Donald Trump. Biden provided … Continue reading “Trump Didn’t Invent the Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Plan. It’s Been US Policy Since 2007”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House this week tore the mask off 16 months of gaslighting by western leaders and by the entirety of the western establishment media. United States President Donald Trump finally dropped Washington’s sugar coating of Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza. This was always, he told us, a … Continue reading “The Gaza ‘War’ Was a Lie, as Is the Ceasefire. Trump Just Told You”

The story: Did you believe it 30 years ago when they told you that the Oslo Accords would bring peace to the Middle East? That Israel would finally withdraw from the Palestinian territories it had illegally occupied for decades, end its brutal repression of the Palestinian people, and allow a Palestinian state to be created … Continue reading “Thirty Years of Middle East Lies Just Keep Coming Back To Bite US”

An entirely mendacious message lay at the heart of this week’s coverage by the BBC of the 80th Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations. The British state broadcaster asserted throughout the day that the voices of the few remaining survivors of the Nazi extermination programme were still being heard “loud and clear” in western capitals. Those survivors … Continue reading “How the West Hides Its Gaza Genocide Guilt Behind Holocaust Day Remembrance”

There have been two stories deeply revealing – in starkly contrasting ways – of the West’s relationship to Israel’s industrialised, militarised slaughter of the people of Gaza over the past 15 months. Last week, Declassified UK carried out one of the fundamental duties of journalism. Its reporter Alex Morris sought to hold accountable a war … Continue reading “Israel’s ‘Genocide General’ Welcomed in London – and the Media Yawns”

There are so many lies, deceptions and misdirections in Sir Keir Starmer’s statement on the ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas yesterday that they need to be picked apart line by line. Starmer: After months of devastating bloodshed and countless lives lost, this is the long-overdue news that the Israeli and Palestinian people have desperately … Continue reading “Keir Starmer’s Support for the Gaza Ceasefire Is Riddled With Lies”

After nine years of legal battles, a British judge has finally challenged the wall of secrecy erected by British and Swedish authorities around the legal abuse of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Judge Foss, sitting at the London First-Tier Tribunal, has ruled that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) must explain how it came to destroy key … Continue reading “Judge Threatens To Break the UK’s Wall of Secrecy Around Assange’s Persecution”